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B. A. DUBEY.

MAIL BOX FOR NEWSPAPERS.

N0. 369,278. Patented Aug. 80, 1887.

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EDXVARD A. DUBEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF DEE-FOURTH TO JAMES LANGAN, OH SAME PLACE.

MAIL-BOX FOR NEWSPAPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,278, dated August 30, 1887.

To all? whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. DUBEY, of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented a new and useful Mail-Box for News papers, 850., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of inyinventiou is to produce for use on an ordinary letter-box a box to be placed above the same on a lamp-post or analogo us support, to receive newspapers and other articles for the mail, and which will protect such articles from the action of'the weather and keep articles safely stored until removed by the person having authority to do so.

The invention consists in a box having a perforated bottom, solid top and sides, and a protected glass front, said box arranged to be placed over the ordinary street collection box and secured to the lamp-post or suitable support, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, ibrn'iiug part of this specification, in which Figure l is a front view of a lamppost provided with a box constructed according to my invention, in addition to the ordinary mail-box; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 0 c, Fig. 1.

A in the drawings represent a street lamppost, and B a mailbox of the ordinary construction.

D is a box to receive newspapers, packages, &c., placed above the mailbox B, and constructed as follows: The back (I. and ends are made solid, and the bottom I) of box D is perforated, and preferably made of wire-netting to allow dust, &e., to pass through.

d is a panof glass secured in the front of the box D, preferably in the grooved top and bottom ribs, 0, Fig. 2, and outside of glass (1 is a piece of wire-netting, f, to protect the glass (1.

Application filed April 13, 1887. Serial No. 134,633. (No model.)

E is a cover, preferably hinged to the front of the box D, and provided with the handles 9. The cover E is made solid to prevent dust and rain entering the box.

The box D is secured to the post A by a band or strap, 71, which passes around the post A, its ends extending through the back a of the box D, and, secured there by a padlock and rod or other suitable means.

2' are legs which project downward from the box D and rest upon the box B, as shown.

If desired, the cover E may be made in two pieces, or in the form of the cover to an ordinary cylindertop desk.

YVith the above-described box, newspapers and articles too large to be put into the regular box can be held in a place of safety from the action of the elements. The articles will be visible to the collector through the transparent front (1 f, and any dust, &e., that may enter will drop through the perforated bottom, k ceping a clean and dry interior.

Having now described my invention, what I claim isl. The mail-box D, having solid back a and solid ends, perforated bottom I), and transparent front d, combined with the perforated froutf and solid cover E, and adapted to be placed over the ordinary mail-box, B, as set forth.

2. The box D, constructed of the solid back a and ends, perforated bottom I), transparent protected front (if, solid cover E, strap 72 and means for securing the ends of the straps ii in the box D, substantially as described.

EDWARD A. DUBEY.

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HARRY M. TURK, T. F. Romania. 

